GIS Specialist
Tara Anthony
she/her/hers
Contact:
1A Central Pattee Library
814-863-5753
Subjects: Campus: University Park, Maps
Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information
Introduction
Privacy is an important component when working with geospatial information where individual identifiers are present (or possibly present in datasets). These library and web resources provide examples of research and additional information on the topic of geospatial data privacy as related to select examples, guidance, and considerations.
Library Resources
- GIS Research methods (ebook available)This ebook provides an overview of thinking spatially, along with key chapters on incorporating a spatial component in survey and interview question research, research ethics including societal and cultural implications, evaluating data, ethnographic field research, analysis, policy, and key emerging areas of GIS.
- Privacy and Ethics in Undergraduate GIS CurriculaThis article discusses research on privacy and ethics in GIS undergraduate education.
- Wang, S., & Sinnott, R. O. (2016). Supporting geospatial privacy-preserving data mining of social media. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 6(1), 1-15. doi:10.1007/s13278-016-0417-yThis article focuses on privacy issues of geospatial content from social media.
- Power, E. M., & Trope, R. L. (2005). Acting responsibly with geospatial data. IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 3(6), 77-80. doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.141This article discusses geospatial data privacy and security topics of organizations, including a decision-making diagram.
- Carr, J., Vallor, S., Freundschuh, S., Gannon, W. L., & Zandbergen, P. (2014). Hitting the moving target: Challenges of creating a dynamic curriculum addressing the ethical dimensions of geospatial data. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38(4), 44This article addresses the challenges of geospatial privacy and pedagogical approaches.
- Gutmann, M. P., Stern, P. C., & National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Confidentiality Issues Arising from the Integration of Remotely Sensed and Self-Identifying Data. (2007). Putting people on the map: Protecting confidentiality with linked social-sThis ebook provides and overview of on linked socio-spatial data, along with chapters on protecting individual privacy in terms of tradeoffs of confidentiality and access.
Web Resources
- Federal Geographic Data Committee, Geospatial PrivacyIncludes link to NGAC Geospatial Privacy Presentation (pdf, Feb. 2015)
- Location Data Privacy, Guidelines, Assessment, and RecommendationsThis report from the location forum provides an overview of location data privacy, guiding principles, and recommendations for the management of data.
- Confidentiality Issues and Policies Related to the Utilization and Dissemination of Geospatial Data for Public Health ApplicationsThis NASA report provides information on privacy and confidentiality, strategies, and government practices.